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Show The Newspaper Thursday, September 24, 1981 PageA9 Howard Coleman dies at 95 Long-time local resident Howard Coleman, who celebrated cele-brated his 95th birthday last month, died September 17th at the Veterans' Hospital in Salt Lake. Services for Coleman were held Tuesday at the Park City Community Church, where he had acted for several years as trustee deacon, and sometimes acting act-ing as minister. Coleman's good friend Mayor Jack Green said, ' If ever the parable of the Good Samaritan was personified, it was Howard." The mayor said Coleman was a deeply religious man who enriched the lives of all who knew him. "In 50 years I never heard him really complain about anything," said Green. He is survived by his third wife, Justine, who presently resides in a Heber rest home; son Howard Jr., and grandchildren Carl and Sharron of Denver, Colo. Until recently, Coleman had cared for himself at his home at 830 Empire Avenue. Howard Coleman, Jr. said his father's health began faltering a couple of weeks ago and developed into an emergency situation. Coleman Cole-man died a few days after being admitted to the hospital. hospi-tal. "They did not perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death," said Coleman, Cole-man, "but it was probably KPCW to Look out, KPCW. You're about to get some kompeti-tion. kompeti-tion. For about the past year, Park City's volunteer voice has been beaming signals into Wasatch County from its translator on Lewis Peak. Now, a radio station in Heber is getting ready to return the favor. According to General Manager Kurt Ovard, AM radio station KLVR is only days away from going on the air. "To be perfectly honest, we were hoping to go on the air last week," he said Tuesday. Ovard reported tht the statiof?'boaicasffacSlitte5", at 540 Main Street in Heber have been completed, and that the station's tower and transmitter, about two miles west of Heber, are also ready to go. The only problem, he said, is getting a line Chamber is liaison for filmmakers If you meet a lost Hollywoodite in Park City, guide them to the Chamber of Commerce. As of now, the chamber and its staffers are the official of-ficial liaison between visiting film and video crews and the city's private and public entities. To keep lines of communication clear, nobody from either side meets except through them. The chamber was given that role by the city's film committee, a panel drawn up to investigate the confusion, con-fusion, inconvenience, and ruffled feelings caused when the crew for the CBS TV-movie TV-movie "Lady With a Badge" was shooting earlier this month on Main Street. The ripples from the filming are still being felt. A recent article in "Variety" reported that the natives in Utah were "restless." But the relatively mild report has caused no alarms to sound at the Chamber, where president Amanda Peterson said, "I didn't think it was too bad." When the ten-member film committee, formed by the City Council, met on Sept. 11, they decided the Chamber would be the one identifiable entity in town to deal with the variety of demands and negotiations required between bet-ween the city, community, and production companies. The Chamber will also have the responsibility of designing specific guidelines for film crews. The results will be reviewed by the city and the film committee. The committee itself will continue to serve a useful purpose as a resource advisory ad-visory group to the Chamber of Commerce. The panel includes in-cludes representatives from the city, Convention and Visitors Bureau, Main Street Merchants, Utah Film Board, and locals who work in the film industry. old age and heart failure." Coleman was past commander com-mander of the American Legion Post. Until two ye?.rs ago, he also maintained the cemetary flags on Memorial Day and Veterans Day, said friend Nan McPolin. Coleman was born August 27, 1886 in Harradsburg, Kentucky, and as a child walked four miles to the nearest school, said his friend Nan in her eulogy. He joined the Army in January 1916, and received the Meuse Argonne Medal and Victory Medal for his service in the Quartermaster Corps in the Argonne Forest of World War I France. He was honorably discharged in March 1919. Coleman was a porter for the Pullman Company, but came to Salt Lake in the 1920s and worked in the now defunct Kenyon Hotel. In 1921, he came to Park City to visit a friend, Art Sibley, and was offered a job at the Newpark Hotel as janitor for room, board, and $100 a month. However, when a position opened up at the city Post Office. Newpark proprietor propri-etor Mrs. O'Keefe urged Coleman to try for the job, said Mrs. McPolin. Coleman worked there from 1922 to 1957 as post office custodian, said Mayor Green. Coleman married Nanny get kommercial kompeiilion installed to connect Point A to Point B. "Until we get a line from here to there, we can't go on the air." KLVR will sign on the air with 500 watts of power during the day, 250 watts at night. Ovard said the station will have a strong signal in all communities within a radius of 25 or 30 miles, including Park City and Kamas, but not Coalville. "We have already filed for a power increase to 1,000 watts," he said. "We fully expect that (to be granted) within 60 days. ..When we hit 1,000 watts, we'll probably get dowpinto ()remrnd "Provtf" "' Ovard said that the station's sta-tion's programming would be aimed largely at the over-30 audience. He described des-cribed the music as "adult contemporary with a country crossover mix." If Tom Lefler from the Film Board said the "Variety" article ar-ticle was fairly accurate, but he objected to the headline "Park City and all of Utah didn't encourage filming," he said. The board had talked to the city about running an ad in "Variety" denouncing the article. "But Park City didn't feel they had the money for it." The board, Lefler said, will explain its position more clearly to "Variety" editors who are scheduled to fly to Utah to cover the opening of a new film studio. "We have to take a positive stance and say we'll do it right next time," said Lefler. He also recommended recommen-ded that Park City and Utah develop a promotional program to lure filming. The Sept. 14, article in "Variety" by Jack Goodman said that local merchants were not swayed by reports of almost a million dollars in profits generated from filming. Eighteen shop owners, he wrote, objected to the blocked parking and jammed traffic caused by the CBS filming, and called for the city to give them prior notice before Hollywood crews came into tow. (Goodman did not mention men-tion the 21 merchants who endorsed en-dorsed the filming.) But the article did cite reports on local cooperation and the friendliness of other merchants. mer-chants. It also said that Parkites have no objection to the filming per se, but detailed the difficult situation created by Main Street's location and the repaving of Park Avenue. "It's time to go past that on to the next thing," said Peterson. She is busy enough at the moment, plowing through several guide packages from other cities which will help her draw up rules for filming here. Howard Sibley, and upon her death married one of her friends, Cloud. Upon Cloud's death, he married her friend, Justine, in 1946. Coleman is buried at the Park City Cemetery near his first two wives. you like Barry Manilow and Dolly Parton, you'll be happy. If you like Blondie or Conway Twitty, you'll have to look elsewhere. According to Ovard. the station also will offer what he described as "information "informa-tion programming," such as tips for consumers. "We want to keep people informed and entertained at the same time." Ovard believes that there is enough potential advertising advertis-ing within the listening area to make the station profitable profit-able in a relatively short at the Gull Park City's Finest Restaurant Open nightly except Monday 6:00-1 1:00 Sunday Btunc h 11:00 2:00 Live Entertainment Friday & Saturday l orn Distad Pcseriatunii Plt.fi 649 7177 A vaiLble lor I'n uutc '.; r;ic oj 20 or man: tmrxm : Coleman "1 telt Ik a as a ijroai man," vii! Vm Mrl'oiin. -'lie was a man ol dclenni- nation u do for hin::vlf. lie had i:ian tru-nd.- in Salt Lake ami n:nYii. and was one of the most respected men in Dm; I'uminuiiitv." period "We don't expect to make money the first month. I've projected we should he at the break even point at probably nine to 12 months." Although the station is licensed to run 24 hours a day, Ovard said that, at least to begin w ith, it w ould he off the air between 1! .30 p.m. and 5:30 a.m. KLVR is the I'lst venture of Majestic Hi oadeastiii of Utah.' Oh, yes. 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